340 CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES [Proc. 47H Ser. 
26. Cryptoptilum lepismoide (McNeill) 
1901. Cycloptilum lepismoide McNeill, Proc. Wash. Acad. 
Scr, UM ip. 50a:. (inipart?) “1d 5° 2. Albemante IslandsGala- 
pagos Islands. ] 
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Fig. 9—Cryptoptilum lepismoide (McNeill). Dorsal outline of male 
eo Type. Tagus Cove, Albemarle Island, Galapagos Islands. 
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Fig. 10.—Cryptoptilum lepismoide (McNeill). Internal outline of caudal 
metatarsus and tibial and metatarsal spurs. Male. Type. Tagus Cove, 
Albemarle Island, Galapagos Islands. (X20) 
A male at hand, taken at Tagus Cove on Albemarle Island, 
March 23, 1899, belonging to the Leland Stanford Jr. Univer- 
sity, is here selected as type. 
Two females, bearing the same data except ee they were 
taken on February 4, 1899, are also before us. These specimens 
were apparently overlooked by McNeill. As this sex of the 
species has never been correctly recognized we would note that 
it differs from the female of erraticum only in its decidedly 
smaller size and subgenital plate which is less strongly emar- 
ginate meso-distad, forming there a strongly obtuse-angulation. 
The male type shows that in this sex the pronotal expansion 
caudad is much weaker than in erraticum, approaching the con- 
dition found in the south Mexican C. tubulatum Rehn and 
Hebard, while the visible marginal portions of the tegmina are 
not darkened as in erraticum. 
The maxillary palpi in this species have the fifth joint equal 
in length to the third, expanding evenly and weakly so that the 
greatest (distal) width is only two-fifths the greatest length, 
with apex weakly obliquely truncate. 
2 The female from Abingdon Island, described by McNeill as this species, represents 
an individual of C. erraticum (Scudder). It is probable that the immature examples 
recorded also represent that species. 
